Haha, finally my long-awaited chance to enter Teleglitcher into the E4 sting competition! Specially cut for 2009, this version is a ten second re-edit to fit the new time constraints. And here it is, in all its HD YouTube glory! Warning, may be a bit manic for some tastes.
I don’t hold out much hope of winning – a lot of the other entries are miles better than mine – but you never know. You can read up a bit more on the development of this project in the posts listed below.
I’ve been wanting to set up a Wigan Athletic blog for a while, but I never got round to it. Who knows, maybe I might get the time to do some vlogs for this one. To be updated whenever I feel the urge, and most likely after I return from the matches.
The pic above is a panorama of three stitched photos taken on Monday morning when people were queuing for 2009-10 season tickets. Accessible via Flickr, as ever.
A couple of years ago, I experimented with video game editing quite a bit, partly to try and get a bit better at cutting and splicing in general.
What with my recent photography at Hindley Cricket Club, I felt it appropriate to repost a video made with Brian Lara Cricket ’99 (PSX) from February 2007. I worked with a 30-second limit to try and communicate a rather prominent element of the game – edges.
The vid’s been knocking around YouTube for a couple of years and has managed to garner around 5,000 views, which isn’t that bad I would have thought.
Howzat for a blast from the past? Browsing YouTube and some of my old vids, I’ve been thinking it might be good to have a selection posted on the blog periodically, mostly to remind me to get off my butt and do more video editing.
I watched with interest Newsnight’s Wenesday night special on citizen journalism. Since all Iranian professional reporters have been barred from commenting on the country’s recent conflicts, the world has turned to Twitter, YouTube and blogs for updates on the Iranian situation.
It just goes to show that in the age of the Internet, it’s nigh on impossible to completely stifle journalism. Life goes on regardless, and even news sources as well-respected as the BBC are turning to the man on the street — or should that be, the man in front of his computer or speaking on his mobile phone — for their informational fix.
People tuning in to tonight’s BBC News could see pixellated, mobile phone-shot footage taken straight from YouTube in the place of regular crystal clear, polished reportage. It may have been lo-tech, but was it necessarily any worse off for it?
You may say that this new age source of news has the capability to be infinitely more biased than your typical centre-right news channel, and this is undeniably true. But is it any different from Jeremy Clarkson’s newspaper column, or a typical review on last night’s television? Well, only in the medium by which it is transmitted.
The truth is that, from time to time, we want bias. We want gritty, real-life stories from people that have experienced this stuff first hand – content undiluted by the need for neutrality and sanitisation.
Like it or not, the blogger is becoming as much a part of journalism as the newspaper editor, the television researcher and that bloke with the deep voice that reads the news on Five Live.
